In­cum­bent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Diego Mar­tin North East, Colm Im­bert, has promised his con­stituents that this term will be his ‘very best’ as he rep­re­sents them one last time.

Im­bert, one of the longest-serv­ing PNM MPs, was the sole nom­i­nee screened for the con­stituen­cy. The par­ty’s Screen­ing Com­mit­tee an­nounced him as their choice to con­test the seat de­spite ru­mours that PNM fi­nanciers were against his re-se­lec­tion,

The vet­er­an MP told Guardian Me­dia he was un­fazed by the ru­mours and said he was not too con­cerned about whether he would be re-se­lect­ed.

“I feel very good about it and I will make sure this last term of mine is my very best term,” he pledged.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter Im­bert’s screen­ing, for­mer Port-of-Spain May­or Joel Mar­tinez said it is the peo­ple, not the fi­nanciers, who are go­ing to ben­e­fit from hav­ing Colm Im­bert as their Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment.

Mean­while, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj says al­though Colm Im­bert has been giv­en the nod by the Screen­ing Com­mit­tee, it is on­ly on Nom­i­na­tion Day that his can­di­da­cy will be con­firmed.

“Any po­lit­i­cal game can hap­pen be­tween now and Nom­i­na­tion Day,” Ram­samooj points out. “There seems to have been some sort of ne­go­ti­a­tion, leav­ing Mr Im­bert hold­ing that con­stituen­cy like a ‘gar­ri­son con­stituen­cy’, and be­ing able to out-ma­noeu­vre what­ev­er think­ing may have been put for­ward by the fi­nanciers of the par­ty.”

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj was a guest on to­day’s edi­tion of CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew show.